Challenge
We decided to share ownership.Now we have to build it.
You're converting to shared ownership or handing off leadership, and it's a big change you want to handle with the care it deserves.
Signs this is you
- The conversion is agreed and no one has designed how decisions will actually work
- Not everyone is bought in, and no one wants to say so out loud
- New owners hold shares and not much practical say
- The founder is still deciding everything, and everyone is waiting for that to change
- Disagreements that one person used to settle now have nowhere to go
How we help
We steward the design of the cooperative and facilitate the change into it. Cooperative formation and conversion design, operational democracy redesign, board and accountability systems training, leadership transition planning, tenure and trust, and coaching through the owner-to-member shift, so ownership means something in practice and not only on paper.
What to expect
Assessment, then design, then coaching through the transition. Conversion surfaces every question one person used to answer alone, and those questions arrive as conflict. We navigate them as they come up, and design the structure so the predictable ones don't become crises, rather than leaving all of it for after the papers are signed.
Related offerings
- Cooperative formation and conversion design
- Operational democracy redesign
- Board and accountability systems training
- Leadership transition planning
- Tenure and trust
- Coaching, owner-to-member transition